Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna
Rob van Eijk
FPF & VUB Roundtable – Banking on Personal Data
Authors: Caroline Hopland, Ine van Zeeland, and Rob van Eijk FPF & Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Banking on Personal Data Last week, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) hosted a roundtable on open banking. Twenty subject-matter experts discussed some of the main challenges in banking and data protection law: consent and its […]
The European Commission Considers Amending the General Data Protection Regulation to Make Digital Age of Consent Consistent
The European Commission published a Communication on its mandated two-year evaluation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on June 24, 2020 in which it discusses as a future policy development “the possible harmonisation of the age of children consent in relation to information society services.” Notably, harmonizing the age of consent for children across […]
Debra Berlyn
What to Expect from the Court of Justice of the EU in the Schrems II Decision This Week
A decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), expected for this Thursday, may have major consequences on the dataflows coming from the EU to the United States, as well as to most of the other countries in the world. Two key legal mechanisms that ensure personal data of Europeans are protected […]
Jules Polonetsky
Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup Discusses Trends in Health Data
We’re talking to FPF senior policy experts about their work on important privacy issues. Today, Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, Health Policy Counsel, is sharing her perspective on health data and privacy. Dr. Hendricks-Sturrup has more than 12 years of experience in healthcare and biomedical research, health journalism, and engagement with digital health companies and startups. […]
iOS Privacy Advances
Law and legislation take the lead in setting standards for protecting personal data, but the policies and norms established by companies also play a central role. This has been the case particularly for global platforms providing the services used by billions in the course of daily life. Apple’s 2020 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) previewed a […]
Privacy Scholarship Research Reporter: Issue 5, July 2020 – Preserving Privacy in Machine Learning: New Research on Data and Model Privacy
Notes from FPF In this edition of the “Privacy Scholarship Reporter”, we build on the general knowledge from the first two and then explore some of the technical research being conducted to achieve ethical and privacy goals. “Is it possible to preserve privacy in the age of AI?”, is a provocative question asked by academic […]